A serious injury on US-36, Canyon Boulevard, or the Diagonal Highway in Boulder can shatter a family’s financial stability within days. Medical costs compound quickly, income stops, and an insurance adjuster starts asking questions that can undermine the claim if answered without legal guidance. Our Boulder personal injury lawyers at Boesen Law step in immediately to protect the record and build a damages picture that reflects the full harm.
Boesen Law has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for injured clients across Colorado. We bring that depth to every Boulder catastrophic injury file, and we are reachable any hour, every day, with attorneys who travel to clients in homes, hospitals, and rehabilitation settings throughout Boulder County.
Reach out to our law firm for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation today. Call our personal injury lawyers in the state of Colorado at (303) 999-9999 or contact us online.
How Our Boulder Catastrophic Injury Lawyers Can Help You
The decisions made in the first weeks of a catastrophic file determine what the claim can ultimately recover. Boesen Law makes those decisions alongside you, then does the sustained work that builds the case. Our experience is the difference that gets results.
- Preserve records before retention windows close. Boulder Police and Boulder County Sheriff reports, body-cam footage, supplemental narratives, and dispatch audio sit on short timelines, and preservation requests go out in the first two to three weeks.
- Lock down every camera covering the scene. Traffic cameras along US-36 and Canyon Boulevard, commercial surveillance, witness dashcam footage, and property CCTV typically are overwritten within thirty to sixty days without a preservation letter.
- Open the full coverage map immediately. The at-fault driver’s primary and umbrella, your own UM/UIM stacking across resident-relative policies, an at-fault employer’s commercial layer where work was involved, and any premises or product carrier that attaches.
- Capture the treating team’s views during active care. Neurologists, orthopedic-trauma surgeons, physiatrists, and rehab attendings are far more persuasive as witnesses than as records sources, and that window is open only while treatment is active.
- Retain a life care planner and a vocational economist in parallel. The life care plan converts future medical needs into present-value dollars; the vocational economist calculates the earning-capacity gap in Boulder County labor terms.
- Build the file for a Boulder County jury from day one. Carriers value catastrophic files based on what the actual discovery, expert designations, and motions practice look like, not what an adjuster reads in a demand letter.
Call when you are ready. We will sit down and walk through what happened and what the next steps look like.
Injuries at the Center of a Boulder Catastrophic Claim
The diagnosis on a serious file shapes which experts we retain, how the demand package is assembled, and how the jury exhibit reads. Boesen Law works alongside treating physicians so the chart reflects the injured person’s actual limitations, not a discharge summary written before the long-term picture settles.
Your catastrophic injury attorney can support your case for many types of injuries, including:
- Traumatic brain injuries. Memory loss, impaired judgment, and emotional dysregulation can follow a serious closed-head event, appearing immediately or emerging weeks later.
- Spinal cord injuries. Paraplegia, tetraplegia, and incomplete cord injuries require lifelong care and produce the largest economic damage figures in catastrophic practice.
- Burns and disfigurement. Vehicle fires, industrial incidents, and commercial-property thermal hazards leave permanent scarring and often require multiple revision surgeries.
- Amputations and crush injuries. Limb loss involves prosthetics, home and vehicle modifications, and ongoing surgical revisions measured in years.
- Complex orthopedic injuries. Pelvic fractures, acetabular injuries, and multi-level spinal trauma require multi-stage surgery and protracted rehabilitation.
- Internal organ damage. Splenic, hepatic, pulmonary, and bowel injuries are common in high-energy crashes and carry their own complication trail that must stay in the record.
- Fatal injuries. When the crash is fatal, the surviving family may pursue a Boulder wrongful death claim against the responsible party.
When the chart does not capture the full cognitive, physical, and emotional impact, the carrier exploits that gap to discount the file. Boesen Law builds the medical narrative in real time with treating-physician support and retained-expert opinion that survive defense scrutiny.
Compensation Available After a Boulder Catastrophic Injury
The value of a catastrophic claim comes from documenting every dollar of present and projected loss in admissible form. Colorado’s damages framework allows recovery across each category that matches the harm, and the economic figure driven by the life care plan typically dominates the demand once finalized.
- Economic damages. Past medical bills, future medical and rehabilitation projected through a life care plan, durable medical equipment, prosthetics, home and vehicle modifications, attendant care across remaining life expectancy, wages lost to date, and reduced earning capacity calculated by a vocational economist. Colorado does not cap these.
- Non-economic damages. Pain, loss of independence, loss of consortium, and the psychological toll of a permanently altered life. Colorado caps non-economic damages but lifts the cap on a clear-and-convincing showing of serious impairment, which Boulder catastrophic files routinely reach.
- Future medical and care costs. Broken out separately from past bills, this is usually the single largest line on the damages exhibit.
- Loss of household services. Cooking, cleaning, childcare, yard work, and home maintenance the injured party can no longer perform, valued at replacement-cost rates over remaining life expectancy.
- Punitive damages. Available under C.R.S. § 13-21-102 when conduct showed willful and wanton disregard for safety, most commonly DUI crashes, extreme-speed cases, and commercial operations outside federal safety regulations.
We fight for the maximum compensation you deserve. That means the file does not resolve until the future-care projection and the coverage map are both complete.
Do You Have a Boulder Catastrophic Injury Claim?
Adam Kehrli, a personal injury attorney at Boesen Law, on what makes a Boulder catastrophic file strong:
The files that recover full value in Boulder share three consistent elements: a documented breach, admissible proof of the mechanism, and impairment that is permanent or will require care over years rather than weeks.
- A documented breach by an identifiable party, whether a driver who ran a red light on Canyon Boulevard, a commercial carrier with federal safety violations, an employer who put defective equipment into service, or a property owner who failed to address a known hazard.
- Admissible proof linking the event to the impairment: crash reports, witness statements, video, EDR downloads, and prompt medical records.
- Permanent or long-duration impairment confirmed by treating specialists, not just a records review.
What Cases Like Yours Have Recovered
Boesen Law’s record includes a $750,000 recovery for a cyclist struck in a marked crosswalk by a left-turning driver, leaving a leg fracture and a concussion, and a $475,000 recovery for a client rear-ended by an FBI agent driving a government vehicle, leaving disc herniations at multiple levels. The firm’s case results page lists additional examples of what serious-injury claims have produced.
If a catastrophic injury has changed your life or the life of someone close to you, call Boesen Law. We will listen carefully, fight relentlessly, and work for everything you are owed.
Contact a Boulder Catastrophic Injury Lawyer at Boesen Law
We offer free, in-person consultations with no obligation. We are reachable any hour, every day. We work on contingency, meaning there is no attorney fee unless we recover compensation for you. Contact Boesen Law today to speak with a Boulder catastrophic injury lawyer about your case.
FAQs About Boulder Catastrophic Injuries
Can an employer be liable for a Boulder catastrophic injury crash caused by one of its drivers?
Yes. Under respondeat superior, an employer is liable for an employee’s negligence within the scope of employment. On commercial-vehicle crashes in the US-36 and Canyon Boulevard corridor, the employer’s policy is often far larger than the driver’s personal coverage. Federal motor carrier regulations can add claims for negligent hiring, supervision, or hours-of-service violations.
How does Colorado’s comparative fault rule affect a Boulder catastrophic injury claim?
Under C.R.S. § 13-21-111, recovery requires the injured party to be found less than fifty percent responsible, with damages reduced by the assigned share. Carriers routinely try to attribute fault to the injured party, and Boesen Law contests that argument from intake.
How long does a Boulder catastrophic injury case typically take?
Serious files typically run eighteen months to three years from intake to resolution, with litigated cases running longer. The bottleneck is medical: the damages exhibit cannot be finalized until the client reaches maximum medical improvement or the treating team can project the long-term recovery curve.
What is the deadline to file a Colorado catastrophic injury claim?
Personal injury time limits generally allow three years for motor-vehicle claims and two years for non-motor-vehicle claims, with shorter notice windows for government defendants and special tolling for minors and wrongful death.
What if multiple parties share fault for a Boulder catastrophic injury?
Colorado allows claims against each responsible party. Identifying every at-fault party at the start is one of the practical reasons recoveries on serious files often exceed the primary policy limits alone.
Reach out to our law firm for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation today. Call our personal injury lawyers in the state of Colorado at (303) 999-9999 or contact us online.
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